Do any single women buy fresh roast beef and sandwich fixins, just to make and eat a nice roast beef sandwich all by themsleves? I know they’ll do it for friends and family, and SO’s, but do any single women go into the supermaket thinking "I want a big, Dagwood style, rare, roast beef sandwich, with a fresh thin slice of red onion, vine ripe tomatoes, a little mayo and crispy lettuce when I get home?
I’m thinking they don’t. Am I wrong? Are there women out there that lust after fresh roast beef sandwiches?
Actually, today I almost went to Walmart instead of the more convenient grocery store just to buy good deli roast beef (Walmart’s Prima Della deli meat is surprisingly high quality) to make sandwiches with. We were out, because I’d had a delicious roast beef sandwich with the rest of the meat the day before.
I also love-love-love roast beef sandwiches from just about anywhere. I like 'em plain - high quality roast beef on a really good fresh baked bun. But I’ll settle for Hardee’s Big Roast Beef or Beef-r-roo.
The best of all time was at Salvaggio’s, an Italian deli in Boulder, CO. I miss Salvaggio’s big time.
I used to have a friend named Nina who did. She also liked to smoke a lot of weed.
I mean I don’t think she went out and bought a roast and roasted it and then made a sandwich from it.
My aunt is a widow and she would make herself a roast and then have roast beef sandwiches with the left overs. She eats like it’s 1962. She eats the little potatoes too.
Signed,
Single woman who buys roast beef for sandwiches and is so happy she doesn’t have to share it or listen to bitching about her onion breath anymore
I was just thinking it was surreal. I was also thinking that, absent certain illegal activities, there is just no limit to the things folks will think to ask:)
Mmmm…thin deli sliced roast beef with American cheese (Land O’ Lakes fresh sliced from the deli-none of that plastic individually wrapped stuff, thanks), on a bun, with mustard. Yummy.
Shop N’ Save has a wonderful Italian roast beef, with some kind of seasoning. I don’t know what it is, but it’s heavenly.
Roast beef sandwiches are okay, but I’m more of a turkey, ham and bacon, with smoked gouda or cheddar cheese, maybe a few sprouts or a couple slices of cucumber on chewy sourdough. With mayo. No mustard. No tomatos. No lettuce. In fact, I don’t really like vegetables on my sandwiches–meat and bread, and maybe cheese, if you don’t put on a bunch of green or red stuff, you get more meat. And cheese. When I want veggies, I eat a salad.
As a single, I make the roast beef (or turkey), mashed potatoes and gravy (and green veggie) about once a month. Then I take the leftovers to work for lunch. I also make myself meatloaf, meaty spaghetti sauce (meaty enough that it doesn’t need pasta), clam chowder, pot roast, lasagne (okay, usually when I have guessts, and some still goes in the freezer, but when you want lasagne, ya gotta have lasagne). I also occasionally eat standing over the sink or in front of the refrigerator, and I drink milk right from the carton. I’ll deny that last one until my dying day, but it might be true. Or not.
And I’ve gotten up at three in the morning and made a sandwich from leftover Thanksgiving Day turkey and not-yet-stale rolls.
I’m married, BUT I’m the only human in this family who likes corned beef. (One of the cats likes corned beef, too.) Every now and then, I’ll cook a corned beef brisket, either by itself or as a New England boiled dinner, and eat that for a few days. Generally I do this when my husband and daughter are eating duck or venison or other game, which I can’t stand. I will eat corned beef hot, cold, and in sandwiches. I will eat it in a box, and I will eat it with a fox.
I’m also the only one in the family who likes black-eye peas, and sometimes I’ll make a small pot of THEM, too, just for me.
Oh hell no! Roast beast requires spicy brown mustard or horseradish. Never honey mustard. Sweet pickles? Ewww. Has to be crispy kosher spears or none at all.
I just bought a lovely rump roast specifically for sandwiches. I’ll cook it today in the crockpot and fridge it overnight so I can slice it thin tomorrow. That reminds me- I gotta get a loaf of sourdough bread.
Seeker, who eats stuff that only guys eat such as anchovies on her pizza, stinky cheese, and once in a blue moon… ::glances around the room:: sardines with cheap yellow mustard.
I just did this. I bought a roast and accompanying vegetables (little potatoes, baby carrots, pearl onions) and roasted them on Sunday. I also bought lettuce and a bermuda onion for sandwiches; I already had spicy brown mustard. So, I have the leftovers of the roast and veggies for dinner this week, and roast beef sandwiches for lunches.
I prefer to make roast beef sandwiches from a home roast rather than from deli slices, since deli beef always seems to me to be too thinly cut, somewhat oily (with that rainbow on it), and too often too fatty or gristly for sandwiches.
Due to recent surgery I am not allowed to eat beef until Nov. 21 (and yes, it is circled in red on my calendar!) and I want to report this thread as cruel and unusual punishment. I have been craving a roast beef sandwich for days now (and I’m a single woman) and it didn’t help that yesterday my (single) daughter ate such a sandwich in my presence, accompanied by numerous comments about it being the best thing she had ever eaten. Nor did I need to drive past the Giant Eagle billboard on the highway 3 times yesterday…the billboard that features just a wonderful piece of beef.
I have several favorite roast beef sandwiches, but the one bopping around my brain right now is roast beef on a salt bagel with Dijon mustard and a little mayo, and Muenster cheese. Unfortunatley, Bruegger’s stopped making salt bagels, but the plain is okay too. And then there is the one made from home-cooked roast beef…just thick slices on sourdough bread with very thin slices of kosher dill pickle and salt…nothing else. Oh, my.
I have to go eat my boring yogurt now, but a question remains: did the OP really think women don’t like roast beef? Because lust is too tame a word for what I’m feeling right now.
Gee, thanks. It’s 9 AM and I’m craving a roast beef sandwich. I’m married but I love a good roast beef sandwich now and then. The best (to me) is a thck slice of roast right out of the crockpot on two thick slices of homemade bread with salt, a little mustard and American cheese. Mmmmmmm.
Not that I make my own bread-- that’s what moms are for.
Count me amoung the “what a weird question” responses. Why would you thnk we didn’t? Is it because we all live on salad and cottage cheese, except when we’re depressed and eating ice cream out of the tub? Do you believe every cultural stereotype you see on TV ?
Sorry, not trying to be snarky, but really, why (barring vegitarianism) wouldn’t we? Or rather, why would it be other that individula taste, as much as it would be for guys?..although the real question re:the OP is HOW could you forget the horseradish?? Mmmmmm…horseradish…
